I suppose I'll whine about the things that are bothering me now. Okay, I don't like it that I still have a throat cold. It makes it hard to go to sleep because I keep intermittently convulsing. It's the same throat cold from mid-December. Enough already. Go away! Fortunately, it seems to be going away. I attribute this to my diet being composed mainly of oranges. I'd put up an image in tribute to oranges, but they show up as grey on my q-cam.

(I can't hear myself)

When someone asks you your opinion of their art, and you don't understand it, your answer depends on how much you respect them. If you respect the artist a lot, you assume that it's just beyond you, and you make up some appropriately vague appreciative comment. ("Ooh, this part is good." Finding something you can latch onto is good, too.) If you don't respect the artist at all, you'll tend to think that they're just spouting garbage with no direction or idea at all, and trying to pass it off as being beyond you. Then you'll probably say something discreetly snide. ("You certainly use a lot of red.") In this way you can use art to determine how much respect someone has for you.  

(Ain't that beautiful?)

Of course, there are many other ways to figure out whether someone respects you or not. The art method has the advantage of hinging on something relatively inconsequential. (That is, your feelings.)(of pride.)(What's wrong with using parentheses?)

The three dots... are called an ellipsis. Yuck. I don't like them. I find that people tend to use them abundantly in email, in an irritating fashion. Instead of writing complete sentences, they'll string together a bunch of abbreviated thoughts with ellipses, to indicate pauses. In my head, they don't indicate pauses. Commas indicate pauses. I end up using commas in grammatically incorrect ways because I'm writing my speech rhythm into the sentence. What do ellipses mean? Then mean something was omitted. When my old dead rusty friend the amiga read things out loud, it translated "..." into "et-se-tra". I tend to automatically expand the things the same way. Typical letter: Hello etcetera I was going through your web page today etcetera I want to know why you don't like ellipses etcetera -signed, dot-head. Bleagh! Don't like them dots. What I do like is this little guy: